Biblioteca Colegiului Sfântul Sava din Bucureşti. Încercare de reconstituire, istorie şi ex-libris
The Library of Saint Sava College from Bucharest. Attempt of Reconstitution, History and Ex-Libris

Summary/Abstract: The National College Saint Sava from Bucharest and the old library have their origins during the rule of Constantin Brâncoveanu, who founded the Princely Academy from Saint Sava monastery at the end of the 17th century, a major cultural centre for the Romanian countries and the south-east of Europe. Besides, in 1818, with the approval of the ruler Ioan Caragea, was opened the National School from Saint Sava lead by the Transylvanian Gheorghe Lazăr. After 1821, the year when the Greek Academy was closed, the library remained in the use of Romanian school, which, on 1832, became The National College Saint Sava. In 1838 the College’s library turned into a public one. Little by little, with numerous donations and acquisitions, the library of the Saint Sava College counted some ten of thousands books, manuscripts and journals. Lots of them were courses or school books from all domains, published and unpublished, used in the mentioned institutions over the centuries. A series of editions and manuscripts were published by researchers as Ariadna Camariano-Cioran and the academician Gabriel Ştrempel. Between 1838-1860 the school had also personal typography, in order to print school books. In the collections of The Eco-Museal Research Institute „Gavrilă Simion” of Tulcea are kept 38 titles in 45 copies, most of the Romanian books from different domains printed after 1830, entered by transfer from The Romanian Academy Library in 1978. All of them have the ex-libris stamp «Biblioteka Kolegiului St. Sava», therefore proceed from the school’s old library (Pl. I-III). Three of them are old Romanian books printed in 1795, 1805, 1829 and four of them were even printed in The College’s typography. The old Romanian books are: Dimitrie Caracaş, Poemata Medica, Vienna, 1795; Alexandru Mavrocordat Exaporitul, Phrontismata, Vienna, 1805; Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, Elements of philosophy, logics and ethics, Buda, 1829. The paper with philosophical content of the erudite Alexandru Mavrocordat Exaporitul (1641-1709) was printed in Greek hardly in 1805, but the manuscript circulated as a school book among the students of the Princely Academy from Bucharest and Iasy. The book of the famous teacher J.G. Heineccius (1681-1741) applied for the series of translation so necessary for the Romanian school opened at Saint Sava in Bucharest. Among the Modern Romanian books with ex-libris stamp, printed in 1831-1859 in typographies as Bucharest, Iasy, Craiova, Vienna, Paris and Buda, we mention Catechism (Iasy) and Petru Maior, The history of the beginning of Romanian people in Dacia (Buda), both printed in 1834. The books are from different domains, necessary for the process of learning and education.The books from Tulcea belonged to The Central Library from Bucharest, which was set up in 1864 for The University through the reorganization of Saint Sava College’s academicals fund. In 1901 The Central Library abolished and its collections entered in the patrimony of The Academy Library. The attendant illustrative material contains title pages of the books from the Tulcea museum’s collection, with the stamp of the College’s old library or with The Romanian Academy Library’s stamp applied after 1901.

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